By Chisum H.B. No. 3123
76R7324 CAS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to authorizing the comptroller to provide certain
1-3 information and assistance to school districts.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 403.020, Government Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 403.020. SCHOOL DISTRICT PERFORMANCE [BUDGET] REVIEW.
1-8 (a) The comptroller may periodically review the effectiveness and
1-9 efficiency of the budgets and operations of school districts.
1-10 (b) The comptroller, in consultation with the Texas
1-11 Education Agency, regional education service centers, and other
1-12 educational organizations, may develop and implement a program to
1-13 provide school districts throughout the state with information the
1-14 comptroller has collected in conducting reviews under Subsection
1-15 (a) that would be useful to school districts in ensuring that as
1-16 much school money as practicable is used for classroom instruction.
1-17 In implementing the program, the comptroller may provide school
1-18 districts with research material, educational policy proposals, and
1-19 technical assistance.
1-20 (c) The comptroller may develop handbooks and provide
1-21 training, an Internet website, and other services to school
1-22 districts to assist the districts in better managing district
1-23 finances and other district responsibilities.
1-24 SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 403, Government Code, is
2-1 amended by adding Section 403.0201 to read as follows:
2-2 Sec. 403.0201. EDUCATIONAL POLICY PROPOSALS. The
2-3 comptroller shall provide to the legislature written policy
2-4 proposals to address important educational issues as the issues
2-5 arise.
2-6 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-11 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-12 passage, and it is so enacted.